Scholarship increased after admission acceptance...

Paying for College
1

<p>I got a 12k scholarship to go to my university (class of 2014)... now in august the online "financial aid award" website says that my scholarship is 16k a year.</p>

<p>The college I attend uses a matrix to determine scholarships iirc. </p>

<p>Do you guys think it is plausible for some reason my scholarship increased (increase in high school gpa or something) ? Or is this a glitch in the system...</p>

<p>Would you call the university about this?</p>

2

<p>It is certainly possible. My daughter’s scholarship increased quite a bit after her initial acceptance and scholarship offer because she retook the ACT and increased it enough to qualify for a much larger merit scholarship. In her case she got a letter offering the better scholarship and had to accept it in writing within a certain period. That may not be the case at your school but I would check to make sure you don’t have to do anything to accept it.</p>

3

<p>Our local community college has several scholarships with application due dates of May 1, and award announcements in mid-June. In other words, almost all of the students who apply are already committed to attending.</p>

4

<p>I might be afraid to call. LOL I’d leave it alone, but prepare for it to get decreased later.</p>

<p>Or, you could call and not identify yourself and ask if scholarships ever get increased.</p>

<p>One of my sons routinely gets a larger award then he’s supposed to. We don’t say a word about it.</p>

5

<p>I would print out a copy of your financial aid award ASAP as “proof.”</p>

6

<p>One of the schools I applied to increased students’ scholarships if other students turned down merit aid. One of my friends received a 3/4 tuition scholarship to Agnes Scott, and she accepted her admission. Then some of the students who got full scholarships declined to go to more selective schools, so Agnes Scott redistributed the merit aid to the other scholarship recipients, and she ended up getting bumped up to a full-tuition scholarship.</p>

7

<p>

</p>

<p>Yeah, seriously. Try not to sound too disappointed about the larger scholarship. Sure, it would be nice if they had just given you a bigger Sallie Mae loan or something, but if I were you I could live with just getting a bigger grant.</p>